Be Excellent To Each Other

New QI was on Friday. New Screenwipe on BBC4 Tuesday at 10:30. New I.T. Crowd on Friday. Awesome. Sauce.

Oooh, didn't realsie the crowd was so close.

Me either, I'll let Sam know too.

Ooooh! That IS good news!!! I love the I.T Crowd!!

being an IT professional (sort of) I find the IT crowd a little too close for comfort!

Sweet new screen wipe!

Ill have to iplayer the QI as I missed it

Also - Outnumbered.

Yes. YES, alright? The little girl Karen is solid gold.

Although it wasn't coolest and trendiest thing to admit to enjoying, but last nights "We Are Most Amused" Charles 60th Birthday gig was very amusing in places.

Michael McIntyre had some nice lines, but was incredibly annoying.
Robin Williams had the best line of the night "Sarah Palin - the bastard lovechild of Ronald Reagan and Posh Spice".
Omid Djalili was hilarious all the way through. "I've done the Royal Variety Performance twice and you were there both times. That isn't much variety in my Royals quite frankly. And now you're bloody here again. Next time I want King Juan Carlos of Spain."
Williams and Bill Bailey uniting for "Your Face Isn't On The Banknotes Blues"
Joan Rivers being shit - quelle surprise
Rowan Atkinson doing what he does best in a sketch with a vicar.
John Cleese being magnificently curmudgeonly "I suppose Your Highness, you get this question a lot but.. can I have a knighthood?"

had on, robin williams did a duet with bill bailey?

Yeah, it was quite funny

Didn't know Sceenwipe was back.

Cheers for the heads-up.

hello@!!!

Reminder:

New Screenwipe on BBC4 Tuesday at 10:30

Tonight folks.

Does this make it to iPlayer? I can't get BBC 4 where I am at the moment. Hopefully it'll at least be on UKNova.

Yeah, should be fine with iPlayer.

not comedy (well perhaps unintentionally) but the remake of Survivors is starting on sunday, 9pm bbc1

Screenwipe? Yay!

I'll have to add this and the IT crowd to our planned-recording list.

Cannot wait for new screenwipe.

Dear BBC,

This (tonight's episode of Screenwipe) will be the first time I've actually watched a TV programme since the second series of Life on Mars ended. (I originally found screenwipe on Youtube and tended to watch them there previously).

Because everything else on TV is shit.

Brooker for Director General!!!

Luvs and kisses,

Jonathan xxx

Screenwipe is now on the iPlayer, I missed the start, so I guess I have to wait til it is finished to watch the whole thing...

It will be available in DRM free forever-vision on your torrent site of choice within the hour, I imagine.

DRM is working BBC! BEST KEEP IT UP!

Or on tvcatchup.com right now, of course.

Another good episode.
However, he did that "how to make tv" type segment again... let's hope he didn't mean to repeat himself.

Should I watch it, or should I not? I do like the original for all it's faults. What made the original was how bleak it was. Bet they ruin it with nicely manicured performers and no-marks with big tits and no talent,

Still, better they ruin update Survivors than Blakes 7. Nobody can top Paul Darrow, nobody.

Chinny Trufax: The yellow Volvo that features heavily in the early episodes of the series was the same yellow Volvo as seen in The Good Life.

Thing is though that the Beeb know all about the iplayer downloader - to the extent where the iplayer programmers often talk to the guy.

But they've made no attempts to stop him (unless you count the site upgrades that reparse the address and layout of the site meaning the script needs upgrading, which is a problem of the hack being stupid rather than any attempt to stop it). The licensing they currently have means they have to include the drm but at least they aren't forcing a pointless arms race over it's hack.

IT IS HACK.

ILL IT IS HACK YOU IN A MINUTE>

I wish he would tone down the self deprecating humour a bit, and maybe acknowledge/realise that he is preaching to the choir a bit, but all in all, it's Charlie Brooker.

Hmm, you are wrong about Darrow, but I do have an appalling feeling that they'll shoehorn quips and references make it too 'frothy' and miss the point that its about an apocalyptic disaster that means absolute trauma and a mass psychology shift for the survivors that makes them at once alien to us and yet forces us to identify with the notion that that is how we'd react in a no-TV, no-power, no-food, no-law situation. Ie: completely terrified and forgetting our current TV-media culture literally overnight.

Well the girl who played Martha Jones in Who will be in it so I've not got high hopes. The show was very much of its time so to update it they are going to have to make it feel different. Don't get me wrong, it might be good but it certainly won't have that creepy realistic and even unglamorous feel the old series had because TV simply doesn't allow for that kind of thing anymore. Everything has to be big, impressive and move along at a fast pace.

I'm also right about Darrow. Sorry.

Um. I was underwhelmed, to be honest. It was funny in parts, but I lost interest when I started cringing at the "poet" bit.

Which is a shame as I love Brooker dearly.

Screenwipe was on at the same time as The L-Word, so I recorded it to watch tonight.

I thought the opening section was really rather fantastic, as was the rest of it, except not so much the dissection of Dead Set. Hooray!

Were there spoilers for Dead Set? I've not watched it yet.

He mentioned it had zombies in it and you get to see a (not exactly massive spoiler)

Last night was a bad day for TV comedy, if only because it contained the first episode of 'Clone', starring the otherwise excellent Jonathan Pryce.

It was teribly. Truly awful. I genuinely can't think of a show I have enjoyed less. I really wanted to like it as it has a premise almost identical to something I wrote a few years ago (and it's not an unfamiliar one; I probably ripped large chunks of it off someone else).

But it is genuinely awful. The worst 15 minutes of TV 'comedy' you will see this year (or half an hour if you can stand to watch more than half of it).

It was properly, properly bad. Pryce had a couple of good lines, but the kid playing the clone was terrible.

I've got it recorded because it has ace people in it, but I'm worried it'll be the shittest thing ever.

I watched Brooker, thought it was OK.

Yeah. The Britannia High bit was bestest I thought.

Yeah, that bit was properly shit. Did he have 3 minutes he desperately needed to fill or something?

OK, deep breath...

I watched Charlie Brookers screnwipe for the very first time and thought that it was badly wrtten, badly produced even for a tiny budget, not funny, slow, repetitive, so very obvious in places, parts of it were written seemingly by GSCE grade drama class students, Brooker himself seemed uncomfortable and had tehe screen presence of a confused uncle at a wedding.

Sorry, I know that this may well result in an instaban, but sometimes I cannot put up with this unworthy level of praise of this man any longer!

Whenever I've tried to watch ScreenWipe, I've found it very variable too, Meem. But then sometimes I find it very funny:

I thought the latest screenwipe was unremarkable. He has done much better.

I quite enjoyed Screenwipe this week. Not the best episode ever but entertaining throughout (apart from the bits with that poet and Liza Tarbuck, I s'pose).

Still, was lovely to see Liza Tarbuck on my tellybox again.

I just don't much like that segment of Screenwipe.

I think the over reaction to the prank call controversy seemed to take over the episode. But then with the nature of Brooker's material as well as what could happen to the media as a whole if efforts to prevent repetition are taken to the extreme, I can see why he's feel strongly about the possible ramifications of this.

It almost felt like a special episode to replace the regularly scheduled Screenwipe.

Still, "Where's the paper?" keeps going through my head.

They were waiting for a large enough proportion of the viewers to have widescreen it seems.

Mee-ow!

It might not have been an episode out of the top drawer, but the Britannia High review was archetypal Brooker. Safe to say if you didn't enjoy that, you won't like Screenwipe. Which is fair enough, obviously - it'd be a dull old world if we all liked the same things as Nigel Spackman.

The Paul Ross thing was the highlight of the episode for me though. Great gibbering Jeebus, that was insane.